71.   Unable to eat on his own, he had a feeding tube inserted.

72.   We assumed we would be called upon to veto the feeding tube, officially, within hours or days.

73.   When the staff caught on they threatened to put a feeding tube down her nose and force-feed her a calorie-packed, liquid nutritional supplement.

74.   With the mainstreaming of many medically fragile children, school nurses are caring for students with feeding tubes and catheters and some who are on heavy-duty psychotropic drugs.

75.   Yet the next day we were asked if we wanted a temporary feeding tube placed through his nose or a more permanent tube surgically constructed through his stomach.

76.   A day after their birth, the Kansas sextuplets were improving so quickly that one was able to take breast milk through a feeding tube, doctors said.

77.   A feeding tube came from his nose.

78.   A nursing home industry spokesman said doctors, not administrators, decide who gets a feeding tube.

79.   A judge Thursday ordered that a comatose woman be placed back on a feeding tube, two days after her husband won legal permission to remove it.

80.   A Supreme Court justice refused Monday to intervene in the case of a comatose Florida woman whose parents want to keep her feeding tube in place.